Milestone in the air

The Boeing Co. announced a milestone for the maintenance and support work done on the KC-10 Extender primarily in San Antonio: 750 improvements have been made to the aerial refueling aircraft sine Boeing obtained the contract 11 years ago.

“This milestone is important not only because the aircraft was the 750th returned to the Air Force following scheduled maintenance, but also because it’s the 750th time we’ve returned the aircraft to the Air Force on time,” said Mike Wright, the Boeing KC-10 program director, in a news release.

Boeing’s San Antonio operations is primarily responsible for the KC-10 improvements, although some repairs are made at other facilities. Its most-recent project was on a KC-10 that returned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base in California on Friday.